Assigning colors to track your progress

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Zack demonstrates how to assign colors and track your progress on your structure map within your Trello post-production workflow. The structure map is based on the concept that Walter Murch introduced as it pertains to creating individual cards with different colors to help you track your story and restructure your story as necessary.

- [Trainer] After organizing your structure map to track…your scenes, your schedule and your various post-production…paperwork, the next step is assigning colors to help…you track your progress.…I use specific colors to let me know what material…is yet to be shot, has been shot, what's edited…and anything that I assign to my assistant to cut.…As I talked about in previous lessons, we're gonna go…and we're gonna start assigning colored labels to this board…and then to individual cards.…And there's two ways to do that.…The first of which is to click on the card, click labels…and edit from here and then of course, we can always use…our hotkey l as we hover over the card…I'm going to hit l and bring up our labels.…

Now, unlike project management where you want to have…all these different various steps, what I'm doing…with colors on my structure map at first, is just…using them to help me track my progress.…And I'm going to talk a little bit later in this lesson,…about the psychological effect of doing that.…So I'm just going to assign a few different colors.…

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9/30/2016

Efficient project management and team communication are the keys to meeting the ever-shrinking deadlines of post-production. Trello is the perfect tool to coordinate editors, assistant editors, producers, vendors, and entire creative teams, whether located in the same physical space or scattered across the globe.

Trello for Video Post-Production is a hands-on learning experience in using Trello, Google Drive, and Slack to build your post-production project management system from the ground up—all the way from planning to the delivery of your final masters. This system can apply to scripted projects, unscripted, documentary, reality, and almost any other kind of project imaginable. Filmmaker and professional editor Zack Arnold shows how to create boards and add new cards, attach documents, share media, assign due dates, and link to several different cloud-based storage solutions like Google Drive and Dropbox. Each step of the process is broken down in detail so you understand how to use Trello to its fullest potential. With these tips, you can finally achieve the dream of a post-production workflow that minimizes busywork, paperwork, and email and maximizes your time to be creative.

Topics include:

Using the Trello interface and boards, lists, and cards

Creating teams in Trello

Attaching files to cards

Linking and filtering cards

Integrating with Google Drive and Slack

Organizing your boards, lists, and cards

Building your main board

Breaking scripts and stories into lists and cards

Managing revisions, specs, and deliverables

Organizing projects with multiple videos

Mapping your workflow

Skill Level Intermediate

3h 15m

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Q: This course was updated on 01/23/2018. What changed?

A: We added one video describing four new powerful plugins for Trello: Trellists, Scrum for Trello, CardCounter for Trello, and Pro for Trello.